Obama Robocalls telling WA voters wrong caucus date

According to The Stranger, as well as a caller into the Thom Hartmann radio program (great show), robocalls are going out to some in Washington telling them that the caucus in on Sunday, not Saturday (the actual date).

The calls apparently came from Meyer Associates Teleservices, a St. Cloud, MN-based direct marketing company. This company has done extensive work for the Obama campaign in Illinois, New Hampshire, and other states.

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9 responses to “Obama Robocalls telling WA voters wrong caucus date”

Obviously it’s a regrettable error, perpetrated by some overzealous soul deep in the bowels of the Obama campaign. Rest assured that the culprit will be swiftly. and firmly dealt with. Think hope. Think change you can believe in. Take a deep breath.

Here, have some kool-aid. You know brutha O and his team wd never stoop so low. Don’t you?

I sure hope that it’s an error and just that. If so, he has the opportunity to address it, as he’s here in WA as I type. His speech, which just ended, said nothing about this. I would expect a public statement on this matter in order to “clear the air.” Responsibility and accountability must be shown here. The issue is that there is precedence in NH, which troubles me. Someone may not have learned their lesson. I liken this to Clinton not being vigilant in handling the people making racist and bigotted (sp?) remarks about Obama.

Anonymous,

Whether they are targeting Clinton supporters or Obama supporters or uncommitted voters is irrelevant. The practice is unacceptable and unethical when done by Clinton, Obama, Republicans, or anyone.

2. Also, if this was from the Obama campaign, I do believe it was a mistake. As an earlier poster noted, how would it benefit them to suppress the vote in a state in which they are expected to win. The demographics of WA as a whole seem to favor Obama. I think it would be important to do a thorough analysis of what voters these were going to. Having worked with the campaign in two states I know that the campaign targets phone calls to those voters who are most likely to vote for, or have already identified their support for, barack.

3. I don’t have a problem with the concept of a “robo-call.” If the call is not mis-leading, identifies who it is from, and is above board, (i.e. “this is a call from the Obama Campaign, and the Senator’s stance on the issue of X is Y…”). The problem with robo-calls is when they are slanderous, purposefully mis-leading, and/or consist of some form of push polling.

I gotta go with the majority on this one, it really would not make sense for the Obama campaign to perpetrate such hipocracy. The weaker the voter turnout the worse for Obama, besides he’s running a great race so far thus there’s no need for these desperate measures. WA go out and Barack the Vote today.

Mistakes happen. My local town hall in CT made a mistake on the post card that went out to all registered voters, with the date of 2006’s primary and only the year changed. I called, and they recognized their error, then sent out a complete batch of post cards correcting the error and apologizing.

I think it is just awful that they made the mistake OF GETTING CAUGHT! That’s the only mistake they made. They call it DIRTY TRICKS! Obama is sort of a combination of Richard Nixon with his list of Americans sending around e-mails about his Death care; plus he is a reincarnation of Jimmy Carter with his lies. Democrats are now getting desperate and have been caught trying to throw grandma under the train.